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finally paroled. In 2008, California increased possible wait times between parole hearings "from between 1 and 5 years to between 3 and 15 years." Whitehorn said that people serving life sentences in New ...
and local jails, dropped 10 percent from 2007 to 2014, from 1 in 100 to 1 in 111. “The incarceration rate has declined steadily each year since 2008,” notes the most recent reporton ...
Article • April 2, 2018 • from PLN April, 2018
and envelopes, the state now requires all letters to be written on lined white paper and sent in a white envelope, in an effort to prevent drug smuggling. Beginning on October 1, 2017, Michigan’s prison ...
Florida. Rather, she argued she was not a proper defendant because: “(1) she is not plaintiff’s physical custodian; and (2) she does not control plaintiff’s day-to-day conditions ...
for “terrorism-related” offenses than the controversial and oft-maligned U.S. military detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. “As of October 1, 2011, the ... [BOP] reported that it was holding 362 people ...
Article • December 15, 2012 • from PLN December, 2012
served as treasurer, and spent the funds on his gambling addiction. See: United States v. Southmayd, U.S.D.C. (N.D. Ga.), Case No. 1:07-cr-00275-JOF-GGB. More recently, in April 2012 the Office of Special ...
Article • December 15, 2013 • from PLN December, 2013
Filed under: Sentencing, Habeas Corpus, AEDPA
court proceeding.” (See 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(2), presenting this as an alternative basis for federal habeas corpus relief under AEDPA). Challenges to the facts under (d)(2) can take two forms: 1 ...
as defendants. See: Awalt v. Marketti, U.S.D.C. (N.D. Ill.), Case No. 1:11-cv-06142. U.S. Army veteran Justin Ray Sparlin sued Cullinan for failing to adequately treat his mental condition while Sparlin was held ...
. Fakery accusations were made against Jones, Marquez and Carter, too – and unfortunately, it took their deaths to definitively disprove them. On December 1, 2014, Jones informed prison staffers ...
prisoners. Questions were raised as to whether the Blackwater prison was even necessary, or resulted from political machinations. [See: PLN, March 2011, p.1]. Beyond Charles Thomas, other corruption within ...
placement in an ad seg unit. In steps 1 and 2 of the BMU program, a prisoner is placed in privilege group “C” (the most restrictive privilege group designation). Consistent with that designation ...
court denied the Department of Commerce’s motion to dismiss on March 22, 2012, and the case remains pending. See: Houser v. Blank, U.S.D.C. (S.D. NY), Case No. 1:10-cv-03105-FM. In its July 2013 report ...
Article • July 11, 2014 • from PLN July, 2014
, it has been cited in over 200 Fourth Circuit decisions and more than 960 rulings in North Carolina district courts as of July 1, 2014. One of the first federal prisoners to have his conviction vacated ...
into giving a false confession “through extreme psychological abuse as well as physical force.” See: Hobbs v. Cappelluti, U.S.D.C. (N.D. Ill.), Case No. 1:10-cv-07649. This leads us back to the question of why ...
Article • June 15, 2011 • from PLN June, 2011
Filed under: News, News in Brief
on March 1, 2011. The sexual assault occurred in November 2009, and Wolford was sentenced in March 2010; he had served a year in prison prior to his early release. “The reason for this court allowing you ...
Article • August 15, 2011 • from PLN August, 2011
possible to do so, especially if the prisoner follows these “Habeas Hints”: 1. Determine whether your case is one in which the defense lawyer’s failure to call an expert amounted to “deficient performance ...
Article • November 15, 2013 • from PLN November, 2013
Filed under: Sentencing, Habeas Corpus, AEDPA
that it was, but that the absence of reasons for the decision was a burden the petitioner had to bear by 1) addressing all the arguments or theories that “could have supported the state court’s decision,” and then 2) showing ...
In-the-News Article • June 16, 2017
;to 1 to cap interstate phone rates. Wright didn’t live long enough to see that. Two years later, in 2015, the regulator moved to take an additional step ...
In-the-News Article • May 28, 2019
with the Obama administration to pass the 2010 Fair Sentencing Act, which reduced the sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine from 100:1 to 17:1. On his official campaign page, Biden's argument ...
In-the-News Article • June 6, 2019
attorneys Dan Marshall and Masimba Mutamba. The case is Human Rights Defense Center v. Southwest Virginia Regional Jail Authority, U.S.D.C. (W.D. Vir.), Case No. 1:18-cv-00013-JPJ-PMS. The ruling is posted ...
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